 Hi, this is Mitch Mitchell and I'm doing this video from my hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee See I'm not worried about telling people where I am now because I only have one more week here, and I'm done one more week So this is the last week coming up of my last two weeks down here And I gotta tell you last week was miserable not necessarily at work, but I was sick The last video I talked about going to Orlando and then the San Diego Well, I pretty much got sick after that I got worn down and I have to say most of it is my fault because I Started the entire trip by not going to bed at all because I had to be at the airport at 4 a.m You know a friend of mine was picking me up So I never went to bed and I just never caught up so I was exhausted all the time I was walking tons of steps I don't know how many miles where I could actually go back and calculate it because of the Fitbit Fitbit, I could go back and calculate it, but I'm not going to I was just walking tons and I was keeping some of the worst hours And I can't sleep on a plane So I was just exhausted that came home and went to bed and I was cold and sick for a while I lost my voice people could hear me but barely, you know, it's just a horrible voice I was coughing a lot. I couldn't get warm. I was just miserable and then yesterday, which was Saturday Some of it finally broke. Now. I pretty much just have a cough But at least overall my body doesn't hurt anymore. Oh my goodness some of the pain I've been on so much medication trying to take care of pain more than anything else I mean forget about not really being able to sleep although I spent tons of hours in bed, but I was just always in pain Right now I'm feeling pretty good as a matter of fact one of the strange things seems to be that I Don't have any back issues right now Before I left on my trip I had all kind of back issues and leg issues and I guess because I spent so much time in bed this past week Not eating all that much or whatever. I guess really I gave the rest of my body some time to rest So I traded one pain for another pain and right now I feel pretty good. So I'll take that anyway, I Wanted to talk about some things that I'm gonna miss about Memphis and this may seem kind of cruel But it's not tons of things. I've been here 18 months if I actually stayed one more week It would be exactly 18 months and I've been in Memphis and yes I've gone back and forth the home and you know had some time off here and there but overall 18 months Getting on the plane and it's not just one plane It's you know playing to somewhere and then somewhere else, you know I've been to Philly and I've been to Charlotte and I've been to New York and I've been Somewhere else a Washington DC where I did that one video When I had to stay overnight in the airport Washington DC. So I've been to some, you know places Along the way and had some interesting adventures, but I want to talk about just Memphis for a quick minute here I don't know if I've ever talked about any of this stuff some of it I might have but you know just like I said a few things. I'm gonna miss about Memphis first thing I'm gonna mention is the people the people here at the Homewood Suites on Poplar have just been wonderful I've gotten to know them all and I've enjoyed meeting every single one of you meet some people some interesting names for instance, there's one young lady named Malaysia and Then there's two guys one is named lucky. That's his real name lucky and other guys name is Colossus Yes, like the statue And you know, I've met some people with some other interesting names, but it's been wonderful Okay, it wasn't wonderful when they lost my dress shirts But I got to buy a whole bunch more and they had to give me money for it. So it was all good So that's been great. It's been nice pretty much working with the people I've had to work with at Hospital and I haven't really been in a hospital. I've been in the office park And you know, it's not that we've always totally gotten along but for the most part, you know what? It's been friendly I have laughed a lot Not intentionally Tons and I think I've made an impact forget that I know I've made my own impact I made a financial impact and I made a personal impact and some of those folks have made an impact on me as well So it's always good when you work with people who you know At least make it so that it's relatively comfortable So I will miss those folks as well I'm gonna miss a place called Fresh Market. They got a place down here called Fresh Market We don't have that at home and they've got these spectacular cakes I've taken some pictures of them and put them on Instagram. They've got something called a chocolate Napoleon Oh my god, and they have these other things that they call a tuxedo Napoleon and a tiger Napoleon And they're these you know pretty thick cakes Varying flavors, but most of them all of them have chocolate in it and they're just absolutely wonderful and For a while they had this shrimp salad which they used to sell at Wegmans many many years ago And then Wegman stopped selling it and they were selling it down here and then they stopped selling it Oh, come on really? But I'm gonna miss that they've got another place called Frost Bakery down here That had a specialty. This is interesting banana nut and peanut butter cake with chocolate frosting. Are you kidding me? Absolutely wonderful, and they got a place down here called Gibson's Donuts Now I pretty much had to stop eating donuts over the last six months because they were driving my glucose nuts And they were you know give me the shakes remember. I'm diabetic, but they had this one donut. It was basically The way it was initially described to me and then they changed the description later on but the exact same thing a cake icing filled glazed donut Goodness You can you can you can feel the sugar rush just by that and then it came out with a longer one. Oh my Had to stop eating donuts. They were just bothering me So I'm gonna miss those things now. I did have trouble finding food to eat down here It turns out that me and barbecue a lot of barbecue. We don't agree We just don't must be the grease in barbecue and they're big on fried chicken down here Turns out the grease and fried chicken bothers me that and the fact that a lot of places down here infuse their chicken with hot stuff So either it's cayenne pepper or it's hot sauce or whatever Mitchell doesn't do hot stuff. And so I had trouble digesting this and I spent a lot of nights In distress, they don't have a lot of great Italian down here That's terrible. They don't have good pizza. What are you gonna do? You know, I mean you live in New York and you've been in New York, New Jersey, and you've had pizza You just spoiled for almost anywhere else They don't have good Chinese down here either But what they have Japanese Japanese is Japanese food almost anywhere in this place I always went called red koi right across the street from this hotel. Well, okay It's a five-lane highway, but still it's basically across the street. Those folks have been wonderful They got to know what I liked they made certain recommendations that turn out to be good They've always been wonderful. I'm gonna miss them a lot and I'm gonna miss red koi because I eat there twice a week So I'm gonna miss that. I'm gonna miss this thing called Chicken pot pie soup at a restaurant called Jason's deli You can't get that everywhere. I found a Campbell soup that is called chicken pot pie horrible Absolutely horrible just forward stuff, but this chicken pot pie at Jason's deli Wonderful, but we don't have Jason's deli at home. So I'm gonna miss that Kind of think well I did finally make it to Beale Street and I don't remember I ever talked about it But if I didn't I made it to Beale Street and that was kind of interesting When I went on a Saturday late afternoon There were tons of people because I'd been there before Briefly and didn't see anything it turns out you got to go down further and In the middle of it all a gay pride parade broke out absolutely Probably the most fun I've ever had in this town. That was just marvelous I'd always wanted to see one and I got to see it. It was everything. I thought it would be so that was fun And I also got to see them at Memphis Botanical Gardens. That was interesting that led to my eventually ending up with my fitness pal and the Fitbit because I Got myself hurt We'll just say that I had a major drop on Glucose and then the next day I had major rise and I did a video on that a long time ago talking about Why I went to use the Fitbit? And One of the things I'm gonna miss is not necessarily the traveling But the fact is that by traveling as much as I did I was getting my cards at national And I am now an executive elite member which basically says you show up you just walk over to a lot Say I'm an executive elite member. They say take any car from there And I've gotten the drive some pretty nice cars I can't remember any of as a matter of fact the other day. I guess I said that I was driving Nissan Acura and someone stared at me saying, you know, you're not driving a Nissan Acura because those are two car brands So I'm driving a Nissan Acura For these last two weeks red reds my favorite color, but I've driven a lot of marvelous cars I drove some lousy cars early on But I've driven a whole ton of cars But at least now I would have some kind of idea if I want to buy another car And I don't really need to right now, but if I do I now at least have some ideas about that and Probably the only other thing that I'm going to miss is Sometimes the temperature is actually pretty nice I can't stand really hot things and they had a ton of days in the 90s Couldn't stand that and over the winter when everyone was telling me oh, we have naturally warm winters Well last year the temperatures got down in the single digits and these people freaked as a matter of fact They freaked when the weather when they said we may have snow on a day They canceled school because they might have snow Are you kidding? But that's how it is when you're down in the south and they don't have the snow removal equipment They don't have the salt and everything else to put down on the road salt or sand So it's kind of a unique thing to deal with when you're from the north and You know it is what it is But that's pretty much it I mean I'm not missing tons I mean I have to admit people have been really nice But there's been some things I really haven't necessarily like to haven't liked the fact that almost anywhere you go in Memphis Almost anywhere you go at some point. You're gonna run into homeless people Probably not the hotel But I've gone into restaurants or come out and there's homeless sitting there begging you for money Or asking if you could feed them and I have you know paid for some meals for some homeless people You go into a drugstore or you know you come out whatever and there's the homeless person there asking you for money That's just freaky, but I mentioned in my last video how downtown San Diego was the same way So, you know the economy is not great everywhere and people want money Strange people will walk in the middle of the street looking for money here That's just freaky to me But you know what I guess when you're desperate enough and you want money you will do anything you want to And when there's more people that you have to compete against for that almighty dollar Just like in regular business, they will do whatever they need to so Anyway, I wanted to do this one here. I don't know if I'll do another one before I leave I'm in an interesting spot because I've been here for 18 months in a home with sweets which means I've been accumulating tons and tons of stuff and Three weeks ago. I sent a whole bunch of stuff home already Because I knew I would be home for a couple of days Well now I've got to send everything else that I own has to go home And I can can make sure I take one bag with me But everything else is just going to get thrown into basically two gigantic boxes and one travel bag that I bought After my clothes got lost here to store clothes in because I always had to store clothes when I went home So I have to find out if FedEx will send that as is maybe just wrap it in some tape or whatever so This is gonna be interesting leaving this place I've told you the things I'm gonna miss not that I hated tons of stuff here, but you know what I'm ready to be home Ready to be back in Syracuse. I'm ready to reintroduce myself to a whole lot of people Ready to start trouble at home and get back to my Syracuse blog and all my other blogging and social media stuff Ready to get some rest and then we'll see what the next adventure is So this is it. I just wanted to get that down on here Probably no one's gonna watch and no one's gonna care, but you know what at least I'll know You know, maybe in 20 years when I'm trying to remember anything someone to say, you know used to record videos Yes, you used to record videos and you ought to see what you said Okay, that's my impression of what my voice would be in about 20 years I hope not. Anyway, this is Mitch Mitchell. Hope y'all having a wonderful weekend and Let's see where I am next time I do a video. Take care